Higbee Beach Birding - Friday, August 28th, 2015

Despite the date, a touch of Fall was in the air this morning. Birds were everywhere, although many did not hold still as they went about feeding. Eastern Kingbirds and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers took the prize as the most plentiful followed closely by the Red-eyed Vireos. The morning sun showed the Baltimore Orioles off well, but the flycatchers were challenging. Fall is here! Come Birding. Leaders: David LaPuma, Chris Marks, Karl Lukens, Catherine Busch, and Carrie Bell.
35 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  5
Turkey Vulture  1
Laughing Gull  5
Mourning Dove  4
Chimney Swift  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)  3     could not determine alder v. willow
Least Flycatcher  2
Empidonax sp.  2
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  150
White-eyed Vireo  4
Red-eyed Vireo  20
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  2
Purple Martin  8
Carolina Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  2
Carolina Wren  4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  20
Veery  20     everywhere
American Robin  2
Brown Thrasher  1
Cedar Waxwing  6
Blue-winged Warbler  2
Black-and-white Warbler  8
Common Yellowthroat  5
American Redstart  40
Magnolia Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  2
Yellow Warbler  4
Prairie Warbler  2
Canada Warbler  1     seen by a few
Northern Cardinal  3
Indigo Bunting  1
Bobolink  50
Baltimore Oriole  8

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)